First-Grader, The

When an old villager insists on attending school so he can learn to read, everyone learns that it's never too late to dream.

Set in a mountain village in Kenya, the film tells the remarkable true and uplifting story of a proud old Mau Mau veteran who is determined to seize his last chance to learn to read and write – and so ends up joining a class alongside six year-olds. Together, he and his young teacher face fierce resistance, but, ultimately, they win through and find a new way of overcoming the burdens of the colonial past.